Senior Project Manager Clinical Research

Abbott; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Abbott in Alameda, CA seeks a Senior Project Manager Clinical Research to lead the planning, execution, and oversight of complex clinical programs through cross‑functional teams. You’ll manage timelines, budgets, resources, and risks while ensuring regulatory compliance and company objectives.

You will drive program milestones from initiation to completion, collaborate with diverse teams, and uphold Quality System standards within a healthcare setting. Travel up to 20% may be required.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of complex program or project management experience.
• Knowledge of new product development methodologies and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to manage timelines, budgets, and resources across cross‑functional teams.
• Experience with GCP/Good Clinical Practice a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute detailed project plans to achieve program goals.
• Lead cross‑functional activities from concept through product launch.
• Ensure program requirements, cost, quality, and time‑to‑market objectives are met.
• Analyze risks and implement mitigation actions.
• Maintain documentation per quality standards and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Project planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making

Problem solving

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Schedule management

Analytical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Science

Masters preferred

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Senior Project Manager Clinical Research

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to :

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Alameda, CA currently has an opportunity for a Senior Project Manager Clinical Research.

As a Senior Project Manager Clinical Research, you will lead the planning, execution, and oversight of complex clinical research programs and studies through cross-functional teams. You will be responsible for managing project timelines, budgets, resources, and risks while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and company objectives. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills to successfully drive clinical programs from study initiation through completion.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for development and execution of detailed project plans to achieve overall program goals.
• Lead, coordinate and/or participate on cross-functional team activities from Concept Phase through Product Launch Phase.
• Responsible and accountable for meeting program development requirements, meeting program cost goals, quality objectives and time-to-market objectives.
• Analyze complex problems including those related to project risks. identify their impact. establish probabilities.
• Responsible for completing documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with business and quality standards. Understand and comply with applicable EHS policies, procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the Quality System.
• Travel up to 20% of the time domestically and may include international to support organizational goals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors’ Degree Preferably in Engineering, Science or a closely related discipline
• Minimum 8-10 years experience with complex, technical program or project management to develop the competence required to meet the skills and responsibilities of the position. Equivalent experience (Min 10+ yrs) and some education will be considered.
• Competent in project planning and management with strong decision-making, problem-solving, using demonstrated good judgment and skill to prioritize.
• Working knowledge of new product development methodologies is helpful with ability to be creative in achieving objectives while assuring compliance to internal and external requirements.
• Ability to utilize commonly accepted project management tools to assist in the development of and adherence to a schedule.
• Aptitude to work on problems that are complex in scope where analysis of situations or data that involves multiple competing factors.
• Proficient in forming and developing interpersonal and professional relationships.
• Competent to work independently and in groups to include working cross-functionally.
• Experience in using various types of databases and other computer software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters’ Degree preferred.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices :

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non‑opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission : Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Our molecular division delivers best-in‑class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is $100,000.00 – $200,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.